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| VI. The World Wars and the Interwar Period, 1914–1945 > C. Europe, 1919–1945 > 17. The Baltic States > d. Estonia > 1935 | ||||
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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1935 | |
| Labor unrest grew significantly, but in the last half of the decade the state increasingly intervened in labor matters and placed legal limits on the right to strike. | 1 |
| 1936, Feb. 23–25 | |
| In a plebiscite, the nation voted 3 to 1 in favor of abolishing the constitution of 1934 and returning to the democratic system. In December a national assembly was convoked to work out a new constitution. | 2 |
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| About 150 leaders of the League of Veterans were put on trial for attempting another coup in Dec. 1935. Only seven of them were acquitted. Päts continued to be irreconcilably opposed to fascism and national socialism, as he was to communism. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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